Annotation: These materials are designed to help health professionals and educators raise awareness about the importance of oral health during National Children’s Dental Health Month (February). The 2019 campaign slogan is “Brush and clean in between to build a healthy smile.” Contents include a program-planning guide, press releases, broadcasting tips, sample newspaper articles, posters, and activity sheets in English and Spanish for children and adolescents.

Annotation: This website provides information about NICHD outreach efforts since 1974, including the Back to Sleep Campaign, that have been addressed to various audiences including Spanish-speaking individuals, African-American and American Indian/Alaska Native communities, and nurses and other health care providers. It also discusses new trends in outreach.

Annotation: These resources provides tips to help parents take care of their children's teeth by establishing good oral health habits. Contents include a tip sheet, poster, and quiz in English and Spanish. Topics including the importance of cleaning gums and teeth early, using the right amount of fluoride toothpaste, supervising brushing, and talking to a doctor or dentist.

Annotation: This guide is designed to help individuals, organizations, and communities develop campaigns that recognize, promote, and encourage healthy behaviors regardless of the health issues. The guide includes an overview of the field of health education, information about organizing and planning for National Health Education Week 2006, and a tool kit for celebrating safe communities and schools. The guide also includes seven appendices: a fact sheet on childhood injury and violence prevention, additional health legislation resources, information about the Society for Public Health Education and the National Center for Health Education, a list of Coalition for National Health Education organizations, and National Health Education Week contest and application forms and an evaluation form.

Annotation: This tool kit contains information and materials for promoting National Public Health Week, April 4-11, 2004. The overview provides a general overview of public health and public health week, gives examples of community solutions, and suggests activities and approaches. The tools for planning events include tips for creating town hall meetings, press conferences, and arranging on-site visits. The section on media advocacy provides key messages and sample news releases and radio spots. Tools for legislative advocacy include sample letters, telephone scripts, talking points, and meeting pointers. Facts sheets are provided on general health disparities, cancer, diabetes, the environment, disparities by gender, health literacy, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, infant mortality, racial or ethnic disparities and rural area disparities. Additional resources and an evaluation are also included.

U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau. 2001. National Child Health Day October 1, 2001: 2010 Express—All aboard! for children with special health care needs and their families. Rockville, MD: U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, 22 items.

Annotation: This kit provides information on National Child Health Day, held on October 1, 2001, which focused on children with special health care needs and their families. The kit includes a promotion guide and poster, fact sheets and reproducibles, and supplemental materials.

Annotation: This packet provides ideas and information to assist in planning and promoting National Child Health Day as part of Child Health Month. The theme for 2000 is Early Childhood, Launching Healthy Futures and is intended to raise awareness that the first five years of a child's life are crucial to his/her physical, mental, and social development. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Annotation: This packet contains materials promoting Child Health Day 1996, which focused on violence prevention. The packet includes the history of Child Health Day; and fact sheets on the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Children's Safety Network, and the Emergency Medical Services for Children program. Other fact sheets cover violence prevention in schools, preventing firearm injuries, state and local initiatives on violence prevention, suicide prevention, lists of publications, and bumper stickers.

Annotation: This packet contains materials promoting Child Health Day, October 2, 1995, which focused on violence prevention. The packet includes the history of Child Health Day, and fact sheets on the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Children's Safety Network, and the Emergency Medical Services for Children program. Other fact sheets and brochures cover firearms and safety, child abuse and neglect, building safe communities, and bibliographies. [Funded in part by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Annotation: This booklet provides information which can be used to promote oral health, the focus of World Health Day, April 7, 1994. It includes a message from the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), background articles on oral health, statistics on oral health conditions, the addresses of WHO offices around the world, promotional materials for two videotapes, and the rules for a board game that promotes oral health.

Annotation: This resource booklet provides materials for promoting World Health Day, April 7, 1994, which focuses on oral health. It emphasizes the correlation between oral health and a person's general health and notes progress in achieving better oral health. The booklet reviews challenges in the United States and reports on oral disease among school children, adults, and the elderly. It includes information on oral diseases and risk factors, the dangers of using tobacco, patterns in oral health around the world, and particular challenges in developing countries. It presents future initiatives, reviews basic points in oral care, and provides information on promoting and participating in the 1994 World Health Day observations. The booklet is available in English and Spanish.

Annotation: This information package contains materials designed to be used in planning activities for Child Health Month (October). The purpose of the Children: Our Future campaign is to raise public awareness about child health issues. The theme of the campaign is prevention, and the specific focus of the campaign is major health issues affecting children where prevention can make a difference; these vary from year to year and include such topics as injuries, violence, disease, and substance abuse. Packets contain brochures, reproducible masters, order forms, stickers, and other materials.

Annotation: This packet of materials was used to promote Child Health Day 1993. It includes the history of Child Health Day, a sample proclamation that can be used by a state or city, a description of the Bright Futures project, an outline of Child Health Month at a glance, and fact sheets on injury prevention, immunization, and substance abuse prevention. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Annotation: The 1992 Child Health Day was celebrated on October 5. Each year the celebration of Child Health Day focuses national attention on an important issue affecting the well-being of children. This year the theme was childhood immunization. This packet was produced to help child advocates throughout the nation plan events tailored to their own communities around this theme. It consists of articles, flyers, fact sheets, a poster, a pamphlet, and a bibliography.

Annotation: These framed prints describe the importance of children in American society and proclaim the first Monday in October to be Child Health Day. Each is signed by the U.S. President. This series covers 1991-2001 (George H.W. Bush, William Clinton, and George W. Bush).

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This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U02MC31613, MCH Advanced Education Policy, $3.5 M. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.